20 January 2021
SpaceX buys two oil rigs to use as floating Starship launchpads
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has bought two deepwater oil rigs near to the .... Once complete, Starship could launch as many as 100 people at a time, an achievement Musk thinks could be attainable about six years from now, possibly earlier. “If we get lucky, ...
05 August 2020
SpaceX’s Mars rocket prototype completes important test flight
... SpaceX, NASA commercial crew mission to the ISS, Elon Musk is pushing forward with plans to reach Mars with ... style, both vehicles will be fully reusable, an approach that Musk passionately advocates as being the only way forward to slashing the cost...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... first colonisers of Mars. This idea is being put forward by Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and the guru of the Space 2.0 ... commercial potential on Earth. An example of this is that Elon Musk founded not only the SpaceX company, but also the Tesla ...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... the recent attempt from SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation), a commercial launch provider created by Paypal’s founder Elon Musk, to land their heavy Falcon 9 first stage on a custom-build ocean platform3? By re-using the first stage...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...; mission to Mars’ Washington Post, June 10 2016 available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/10/elon-musk-provides-new-details-on-his-mind-blowing-mission-to-mars/ 4 See, for examples of this the discussion by Maschke...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... engineer, works on satellite assembly at the company’s Glasgow office. In 1999, three years before PayPal’s IPO made Elon Musk a multi-millionaire, Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs of Stanford released their...
